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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my kids love many of the same books! Though thank god they're finally outgrowing captain underpants and the Wimpy Kid. I do think that graphic novels are different from "comic books." What has worked for me is to read what they are reading. I do not like it when all they read is graphic novels and TinTin, etc. But at the same time, it WAS improving their literacy! I remember my kindergartner reading aloud, and how proud I was that she could read "blistering barnacles!" 
   I strongly believe in allowing kids to read whatever they want to, but at the same time I'm not happy with it being all graphic novels and comics. I can't help wondering if it will change the way they think and eventually write, if that's all they read. So what I do is get a whole bunch of novels and chapter books from the library each time we go. At some point they'll get bored with the choices they have, and will pick up something else. If not, then I will pick one that I like and start reading it aloud to them at bedtime. They will get absorbed in the story and want to finish reading it themselves.[/quote]

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